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NEWS: Real Numbers announce new EP; share video for lead single, ‘Brighter Then’

MINNEAPOLIS’ Real Numbers are back with a brand new EP entitled Brighter Then. The EP will arrive on January 22nd next year via Meritorio Records and Slumberland Records. Following on…

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NEWS: Leeds band Van Houten release ‘Home Alone’ EP this Friday – hear the title track

LEEDS psychedelic pop outfit Van Houten will release their new EP, Home Alone, via Clue Records this Friday, November 13th. Also out this Friday alongside the EP is beautifully personal single, “Not…

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Track: Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres reveals the beautifully poignant ‘Dance’

Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres has released “Dance”, the first single from her debut album 2 Years Stranger. The Bristol-based film composer spent two years in her family home while her father lay…

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See: Miynt releases new visuals for ‘Give me palm trees and inner peace’

Stockholm artist Miynt has released a new AA-side single consisting of the tracks “Give me palm trees and inner peace” and “Lovesong”. The songs “address the inexorable digital ubiquity of modern-day human connection”. That sounds…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Denison Witmer – ‘American Foursquare’: soothing Philadelphia folk

Asthmatic Kitty announces a physical release for the soothing new album by PA songwriter

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ALBUM REVIEW: Urlaub in Polen – ‘All’: welcome and surprise return of fine krautrock pair

This unexpected album from German duo Urlaub im Polen has arrived eight years after they originally disbanded. Back and bolder than ever, All marks an ambitious comeback from the pair - it's a collection of warped, electronic Krautrock.

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Album Review: Young Jesus – ‘Welcome to Conceptual Beach’

Saddle Creek 's emo-jazz-rock band presents its most accomplished album, a spiritual journey driven by a swirl of enthralling riffs

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Occult rock trio Kabbalah signs to Rebel Waves for new album

REBEL WAVES RECORDS have announces the signing of Spanish occult garage rockers Kabbalah to their roster. The trio will release their new album, The Omen, in early 2021, with more details to be…

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TRACK: Fortíð announce new album; hear ‘Controlled Patterned Mental Process’

FORTÍÐ have released a new single, “Controlled Patterned Mental Process”, taken from the pagan metal duo’s forthcoming sixth full-length, World Serpent. Fortíð’s Einar Eldur Thorberg says of the track: “As the…

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TRACK: The Antlers – ‘Wheels Roll Home’

IT COMES as a surprise that The Antlers are possibly on track to a new album, more than six years after the last one. Especially after the frontman, Peter Silberman,…

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